Police search area near resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared

View full sizeMadeline McCann's photo was posted on a pole near where she disappeared. (AP file photo)

Investigators are searching an area near the Portuguese resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared seven years ago.

According to the BBC, police were searching Monday in scrubland about 300 yards from the hotel room where the British girl went missing as her parents ate dinner at a nearby restaurant in May 2007.

According to the story, investigators were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area which they have been watching from an adjacent low hill.

British police reopened the investigation into the then 4-year-old's disappearance in 2011. According to detectives, they have compiled a record of cases involving sexual assaults on children in the area during the time Madeleine and her family visited the resort.